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Andrew D. Graham serves as Senior Counsel, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Strategic Affairs at Alliance Defending Freedom. In his role, he designs ADF’s academic initiatives and professional-development programs, including the Blackstone Legal Fellowship; engages with thought leaders around the world; and speaks at academic gatherings, universities, and think tanks on law, politics, and culture. Additionally, Graham is a senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute in Washington, DC; an elected member and trustee of The Philadelphia Society; an elected member of The Mont Pelerin ...

ADF attorneys represent Leesburg Elementary School teacher Tanner Cross

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Harle regarding the unanimous decision Tuesday of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit panel to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of Equal Means Equal v. Ferriero, a lawsuit that implausibly claimed that the long-dead Equal Rights Amendment should nonetheless be adopted into the U.S. Constitution: “The Equal Rights Amendment has been legally dead for a very long time. Congress gave states seven years to ratify it, a deadline that came and went decades ago. Honest advocates for the ERA have long ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Denise Burke regarding North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the Human Life Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that protects unborn children against discrimination based on their race or the presence of Down syndrome: “Every innocent life is worthy of protection. No one should be discriminated against because of his or her race, disability, or genetic makeup. This is especially true of unborn children who are being marked for death simply because someone has determined they are the wrong race, or because a ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb regarding the Ohio House’s vote Thursday to include the Save Women’s Sports Act as an amendment to SB 187. The amendment protects opportunities for women and girls in athletics by ensuring they are not forced to compete against males playing on women’s sports teams: “When the law ignores biological differences, women and girls bear the brunt of the harm. The Save Women’s Sports Act ensures that female athletes in Ohio are able to compete on a level playing field. We have seen increasing ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, regarding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signing Tuesday of HB 233, a bill that provides better recourse for public university students if they are punished for expressing their sincerely held religious beliefs in a private setting, as happened to ADF client Jack Denton: “Students don’t forfeit their right to free speech when they step on to a public university campus. After forcing Jack Denton out of his position as student senate president, the ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Zack Pruitt regarding the failure of the “For the People Act” to pass the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The bill was designed to expand the definition of “political speech” and would have dramatically altered the First Amendment speech and association protections that American citizens have enjoyed since the founding of our country: “Despite contending to be ‘for the people,’ this bill would have imposed unworkable and invasive regulations on the ability of Americans and groups of citizens to discuss vital policy issues ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb regarding Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto Tuesday of the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, a bill that protects opportunities for women and girls in athletics by ensuring they are not forced to compete against males playing on women’s sports teams: “We are disappointed by Gov. Edwards’s decision to ignore the best interests of women and girls and veto the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. This legislation ensures that female athletes in Louisiana are able to compete on a level playing field ...

ADF: Now high court should take case of Barronelle Stutzman, build on its ruling that govt can’t punish people for their faith, beliefs

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding a Colorado trial court’s decision that punishes cake artist Jack Phillips for not designing a custom pink-and-blue cake celebrating a gender transition when asked to do so by an activist attorney: “Jack Phillips serves all people but shouldn’t be forced to create custom cakes with messages that violate his conscience. In this case, an activist attorney demanded Jack create custom cakes in order to ‘test’ Jack and ‘correct the errors’ of his thinking, and the activist even threatened ...